Quotes About Contradiction

Unfortunately, I'm one of those idiots who knows everything about health and is in a constant state of alarm, and yet I continue to do everything I shouldn't do.

In the Modern Age, there are still those who refuse to contradict a single word of the Bible, even though the Bible contradicts itself.

life only starts to make sense when you realize that sometimes - often - all the time - two completely contradictory ideas can be true. Everything that led up to you was wrong. Therefore, you should not have been born. But everything about you is right: you had to be born. You were inevitable.

Arminian notion of Liberty of the Will, consisting in the will's Self-determination, is repugnant to itself, and shuts itself wholly out of the world.

This wasn't the person he'd thought he was, or would have chosen to be if he'd been free to choose, but there was something comforting and liberating about being an actual definite someone, rather than a collection of contradictory potential someones.

we are all, by nature, hypocrites, and this is why it is so hard for us to follow the Golden Rule faithfully.

The second truth in this part of the story is that we are all, by nature, hypocrites, and this is why it is so hard for us to follow the Golden Rule faithfully.

I'm tightly wound. I'm a loose cannon. Both - I'm a tightly wound loose cannon, a tight loose.

Jesus H. Christ in a clown car.

I now add, farther, that the apostle's argument is so far from proving it to be the duty of people to obey, and submit to, such rulers as act in contradiction to the public good, and so to the design of their office, that it proves the direct contrary.

The trouble was that they also argued that the worst thing you can have is certainty. Conviction, they said, leads to tyranny. On this they were wrong, indeed self-contradictory. Hayek was certain that freedom was preferable to slavery

new antisemitism with its German forerunner is its irrational, self-contradictory character. Jews were hated in Germany because they were rich and because they were poor, because they were capitalists and because they were communists, because they kept to themselves and because they infiltrated everywhere, because they believed in a primitive faith and because they were rootless cosmopolitans who believed nothing.

A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.

Nothing here is as it seems; Dreams are truths, and truths are dreams. Closed your ears to loved ones' cries; Die if you believe your eyes. Bind with ropes your flesh and blood, And let your guide be made of wood.

I might talk about killing people, but that doesn't mean I do it.

Incongruity, they say, is one of the main ingredients of humor. Maybe it's because everybody can feel superior to me. I honestly don't know.

la Revolución ha sido la gran Diosa, la Amada eterna y la gran Puta de poetas y novelistas. Octavio Paz, «La letra y el cetro», septiembre de 1972.

brief, German Jews were prisoners of what George L. Mosse analysed as an insurmountable contradiction between Bildung and Sittlichkeit, the former being increasingly Judaized, while the latter remained ever unattainable, even by individuals as rich and powerful as the banker Gerson Bleichröder or the industrialist Walther Rathenau.

All Cretans are liars.

Le soufisme attire, séduit, tandis que l'islam fait figure de repoussoir. Quel paradoxe ! Le soufisme, plénitude de l'islam, voie d'excellence évoquée par le Prophète.

Life doesn't make any sense, and we all pretend it does. Comedy's job is to point out that it doesn't make sense, and that it doesn't make much difference anyway.

Thus," he said, "the Christian message is basically amoral and irreligious, paradoxical as that may sound.

It's much easier for me to imagine a praying murderer, a praying prostitute, than a vain person praying. Nothing is so at odds with prayer as vanity.

Miracles are not in contradiction to nature. They are only in contradiction with what we know of nature.—SAINT AUGUSTINE